Victorian gardens: The art of beautifying suburban home grounds (1870)
Scott, Frank J. (Frank Jesup), 1828-1919 · [n.p.] D. Appleton & Co. · leaf 237
e largest. The specu-lative habit of cutting up suburban lands into narrow city lots25 x 100 feet, or but little more, destroys all chance of making truesuburban improvements. Such lots will only sell to citizens whoare either too poor, too cockneyish, or too ignorant of their ownneeds, to insist… … CHAPTER XVI THE RENOVATION OP OLD PLACES. WHATEVER objection may be urged against buyingand renovating old houses, will not apply to thepurchase of ground stocked with old trees andshrubs. Many a rickety, neglected place, is filledwith choice old materials, which, with small expenditures in…
